Am I Optimizing Too Much? | Monday Advice

A couple of weeks ago, the author Brad Stolberg published an essay on his substack that made the following bold claim. And he argues instead of this making us better performers or happier, it's instead making us miserable.

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, it's, right, including: Optimization culture is destroying a generation.

1. 01Now, he argues in this essay that digital technology has now made it possible to measure at a very fine granularity all sorts of metrics in all different parts of our life, from ou
2. 02What is the right relationship with metrics and performance that you can actually make your life better without getting stuck in this optimization trap?
3. 03We cover a lot of ground and then we end up actually, you'll notice if you listen to this conversation, we end up at a new model for optimization, practical, realistic optimization